Chapter 143 - You are not taking my son

18 January, LS Studio and in vehicle to Military Base, City K

Sitting down in the quietness of her office, Lexi completed the notes and preliminary sketches of the couture dress that crossed her mind from the appointment she had with new clients. It always was pleasant to deal with clients who genuinely appreciated her work, and that of her team to the point they would travel from the United States, for an appointment and preliminary measurements. As they left, reassuring Lexi they would stay in country until Tuesday she knew with the team, they had enough time to complete the design and start preliminary work on the dress.

Setting aside that, Lexi paused and thought about the conversation she had with Chester and Phillip the previous night. On reflection they were right. Given Dominic was unhappy about the arguments she and Matthew were having at home, she had to address the problem head-on.

The problem was, presently the solutions she and Matthew had were at completely different. He refused to even consider her position of a divorce now, and his position that she had to give their marriage a proper chance before he would consider agreeing to a divorce was equally unacceptable to her. In that moment Lexi knew that to get anywhere with anything within this marriage they both had to admit that the marriage was causing problems.

At that moment, she heard her notification sound on her phone, and picked it up. Opening the Text message, Lexi saw that it was from Matthew, telling her he had returned from whatever he had been doing. The immediate thought was why should she care that he was back.

But after a couple of seconds Lexi realised that this gave her an opportunity to confront him, away from Dominic. Rather than responding, Lexi picked up her handbag and phone heading out the from the studio, calling out to everyone she would see them at Monday's staff meeting before quickly moving to her Porsche Macan.

The last few days, the bodyguards had her drive a non-descript vehicle to make things easier for them, the client's she had dealt with meant that she needed to use a vehicle from her collection that projected an image. She immediately ruled out her second-hand Bugatti Veyron, as it needed a careful service, and while she would have loved to use her favourite car from the collection, a Ferrari 458 Spider, taking Dominic to school before heading to the studio made it impracticable.

Thinking about her collection, Lexi knew how different she was to Andrew and Chester. They did not care about what they drove, if it worked whereas she loved collecting and driving them. Her business allowed her to ensure her collection had a mix of high performance and more practical vehicles, but most of them tended only to be driven on the track or by Andrew, Chester and Phillip.

As she tended, since her return to use the Macan or the Lamborghini Urus, as they were more practicable with Dominic, she had to encourage Andrew, Chester and Phillip to use them, so they were drive more frequently that she could drive them.

However, given how quickly she had moved, neither Sergeant Yi or the other guard had been able to get to the car before she slammed the door and drove off. Both looked at each other, and worried as they had not been able to secure a tracking device to the vehicle to let them determine where she had gone. Grabbing the vehicle, they had hidden nearby for occasions such as this, they started off in the direction that they believed she was going, back towards Matthew's Villa.

Lexi, however had headed in a direction they had not expected, towards the Military Base. As she was driving her mobile rang and on answering it, she realised it was Richard's parents. "Mother, Father, what can I do for you?"

"Lexi, we have heard information that you have remarried. Is it true?" questioned Richard's mother.

"There are some things you need to understand, and I have to discuss them face to face with you. I do not want to deal with this on the phone. Can we talk next week?"

"Lexi, that is not what we asked. You know we did not fight your decision to leave our grandson with your brother and his then wife when you went overseas in the aftermath of Richard's death, despite our offer to have either him or the both of you to live with us. We want you to answer the question, as the terms of Richard's will are as to Dominic's guardianship, if you remarried, we were to immediately have custody of him."

"Yes, but you need to know the situation."

Richard's father spoke "You have given us our answer. We will give you until Sunday lunchtime to spend with him, and we will collect him from your house before taking him to his new school in Country W. From then you will see him twice a year under our supervision, and we will be taking all the assets that Richard left for him."

Lexi angrily spoke "Just try me. You are not taking my son, nor are you taking him out of the country." With that she abruptly ended the call and realised that tears were falling down her face. How dare they. They demanded a huge payment on Richard's death now they are going to hang this over her.

The closer she got to the Military base, the more her anger shifted from Richard's parents to Matthew. He was the cause of all of this. If had given her what she wanted and had been demanding, she would now not be facing the loss of her son. The b*stard.

As she arrived at the military base, she pulled up to the gate and was stopped by the guards. Winding down the window she said, "Let me in to see that b*stard of a husband of mine, Matthew Rong."

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